March 12, 2026 • 57 mins
Go Thank an Oil Man
Clay and Buck open by discussing breaking developments in Iran, including the condition of Mojtaba Khamenei—nicknamed “Little Mo”—who is reportedly in a coma and severely injured following U.S. airstrikes. The hosts analyze how the Iranian leadership is under unprecedented pressure as air campaigns continue to dismantle military assets and target key regime figures. They also address escalating attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the resulting volatility in global oil prices, and how President Trump is responding with aggressive measures, including tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and coordinating releases of hundreds of millions of barrels internationally to stabilize markets. The conversation highlights the dramatic price swings of crude oil and examines how Iran is trying to weaponize oil shipping routes to trigger economic turmoil.
The hosts then explore how American media outlets are selectively covering the surge in gas prices. Clay criticizes networks like CNN and MSNBC for ignoring declining fuel costs for more than a year but immediately amplifying short‑term price increases during the conflict. This flows into a broader media discussion about the differences between advertising‑driven outlets and subscription‑driven news models, with Clay noting that subscriber‑funded outlets—such as the New York Times—now cater to ideological expectations instead of broad audiences. Buck argues that Fox News at least acknowledges its editorial perspective, whereas CNN still pretends to be nonpartisan despite consistent ideological framing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show,
known to many as Clay and Buck, that starts right now,
and we got so much to get to. Let me
just give you a little bit of an outline before
we dive into all the biggest stories today. Uncle Bill
Bill O'Reilly joining us hour two. Talk to him about
how this whole Iran war thing is going and the
(00:23):
Save Act, Save America Act.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Have that discussion.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Senator Eric Schmidt will be with us, and we will
also have Senator John Cornyn with us. I would say
to any of you who have we have a lot
of Texans who listen Texas or California. Well those are
the two biggest states by population, so it's not really
that surprising, but it's either Texas or California is our
biggest state for listenership. So we have a lot of Texans,
(00:49):
and we love all of you. Not all of you
are huge Cornin fans. Some of you perhaps are. Send
us your questions for Senator Cornyn and we will see
if we can get a couple of them to him
on the air today as he is in this primary,
this contested primary, wondering if there will be a Trump endorsement.
(01:09):
That's a lot of eyeballs on this one, so we
will get to that. Three guests today, two Senators, Uncle Bill,
and now we can get into some of the news today.
Clay Little Mo as Clay calls him, Iran's new supreme
leader much Taba Kamina has issued a statement, but he
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is well. Someone has issued a statement on his behalf.
He is apparently in a coma and missing a leg,
so he got hit in one of these air strikes
and they are putting.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Him forward as the future of Iran.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That certainly goes to what level of pressure the leadership
of Iran is under that even there next up at
Bat is having to have statements released from others around
him because he's in a coma from an air strike.
So essentially, the next person who raises their hand in
Iran and says I'm going to continue the Islamic revolution
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in this country and i shall continue to fight against
the Great Satan and the Little Satan probably going to
get blown up. That is where we are right now,
at least while these hostilities, these aerial campaign continues. Clay
oil price has surged a bit and there are concerns
as well, after two tankers were attacked, and I believe
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are on fire in the straight of horror moves. So
they're continuing to try to go after the oil, the
global oil industry as their choke point, as their way
to hit back at US. Also, Trump monitoring Iranian terror
sleeper cells. A lot of concern about that, and I
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think rightly concern concern about that, and we shall discuss that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So Clay, I mean, first one.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Up here, we are in another day of this aerial campaign.
We now know that Munchtaba is in a coma. Little
mo is having a tough one. What do you think
about the latest here with the attacks on oil, oil
shipping and trying to make this a global environmental and
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economic catastrophe to get this to stop, that's clearly the
Iranians play.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think it actually is going to make President Trump angrier,
and I think it's actually going to result in a
worse outcome for Iran than if they allowed the oil
to transit without issues at all. And I'm pulling up
to check the oil price as we speak right now,
because it has been probably the number one story that
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is out there, and it's hanging right around ninety dollars
a barrel, And you say, okay, Clay, where does that compare?
Is around sixty five dollars if I remember correctly, before
this war started, and now it's right around ninety dollars.
It went all the way up to one hundred and
twenty dollars Sunday in the opening hours of the of
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the market, beginning with danger and fear, and so then
it crashed all the way back down to like seventy five.
It's come back up to around ninety. It's bounced around
a lot, and I think the question is how safe
is the Strait of Hormuz and what does that mean
for overall pricing of oil and gas? Now President Trump
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has released I think it's one hundred and eighty million
barrels is what I saw from this strategic reserve. There's
four hundred million worldwide being released. My understanding, Buck, is
that that takes a couple of weeks to actually come
into the marketplace as a whole, because it takes a
while for all of those all those barrels of oil
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to reach the marketplace.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, I stand corrected on that one. Chuck Schumer said,
do it, and Trump's actually doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
The Democrats are going to hit him for having to
do that, but the oil shock seems severe enough that
some effort to soften the blow is a blow to
your wallets essentially is underway. So there you go, Chuck
Schumer giving some good advice to his opposition. Hey, Clay,
even a broken clock, you know, So I'll take the
(05:20):
l on that one. Trump's doing it. This has cut
seventeen on gas prices. Trump last night at joint Base
Andrews hit it.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I say a timeline on when you're planning to tap
this Strateina petroleum. Preserve a timeline of.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
When that we're going to be doing it very quickly,
and then we'll fill it up. We'll fill up our reserves,
you know, if you remember I filled them up.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
And then I had a deal to go at the
highest level.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
A level that's never been and Schumer and the Democrats
for twenty five dollars, and it was turned down. You
remember that, Peter, almost before your time, but not quite,
but it was. We had a deal at twenty five dollars.
Think of that, twenty five dollars a barrel, and the
Democrats turned that, We're we're gonna tap it out like
it's never a bit, but they turned that down and
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now it's a.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Lot higher, played Trump, of course, saying Democrats had no
foresight on this issue. Not a surprise, but there's enough
of a jolt of the oil markets that there's serious
and immediate action being taken to stabilize things.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Look, and I think this is where the average American
is going to feel to the extent we do anything
going on with Iran is in oil and gas prices.
And I would just point out that two years of
oil and gas prices coming down, by and large, was
not a story that is almost I watch these television
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broadcasts of the news almost every at least three hours
every day.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
While I'm talking to all of you.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I have never seen CNN or MSNBC do a story
on boy, President Trump has really brought down gas prices
during his tenure in office. Never seen a story about
gas prices going down for a year and a half.
And now gas prices have gone up for a week
and it's the lead story on MSNBC and CNN. And
(07:12):
by the way, Buck, it vanished when oil and gas
prices went back down to seventy five. Now that they've
come back up to ninety. We're back to covering oil
and gas prices again. And they put the picture of
the oil and gas prices in the corner of the screen.
Right now, the talk talking point on CNN is oil
and gas prices, and talking point on MSNBC is oil
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and gas prices. So I do think when it's a
good story, right for the year and a half that
the prices came down, not one mention of it for
the one week they've gone back up. Oh my goodness,
this is a story that we have.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
To cover well.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
As we know, journalism in America has foury fully morphed
into it's not about what you should know, it's about
telling the audience what they want to know.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, what they want to hear, what they want to watch.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And that's really the case over at CNN, at MSNBC,
at MS now it's the case of Fox too. I
don't live in some delusional world. I mean, Fox is
going to have a right of center point of view.
But there's more, there's so much more honesty about that.
I mean, their primetime lineup, our opinion hosts. CNN still pretends,
CNN still pretends that they're just journalists, just Anderson.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Cooper could vote either way. Who knows? Does he love Trump?
Does he hate Trump?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Oil prices important today, unimportant yesterday?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I wonder why.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I also think this is important, and I think it
has been under discussed and it continues to be under discussed.
You can criticize Fox, and you can criticize them. You know,
they have sixty six percent of the news audience whatever
the heck. It is sixty percent on any given day,
bigger than MSNBC and CNN combined. Their entire business is
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based on advertising, so their audience responds to things and
they cover it. That used to be the overarching way
that everybody made money. Now the New York Times makes money.
Washington Post makes money off subscriptions, and that's a very
different business model because subscribers want to be told that
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their worldview is correct. When you're pegged to advertising, you're
trying to reach the biggest possible audience because that's how
you get paid. We get paid based on advertising, So
the bigger the audience is, the more money this show makes.
We're not making money off subscriptions. The New York Times.
Subscription changes the calculus of how the business is run.
(09:32):
And I was just looking. This just came across the line.
Buck New York Times has stunned me. Has doubled the
number of journalists that employees in the last ten years.
They have twenty three hundred journalists now, doubled what they
had just ten years ago. And that's to serve subscribers,
it's not to provide the best possible outcome to the
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media ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I also, though, think that there's and this has been
the case for a long time. This has been an
argument that I've been making since before I was in media.
There's a fundamental honesty with Fox News that which which
I think is part of why the audience is so durable,
sticky if you will, And it stays with Fox Watch.
There's a fundamental honesty about Yeah, of course, like the
(10:18):
opening mind, like Jesse Waters isn't sitting there like I
don't have any opinions. I'm just I'm just presenting the
objective news. Like that's insane. These other channels have been
doing this game of we're just we're just news. Yeah,
I'm not going the same thing with ABC News and
these other things. Same thing with those They're just lying,
They're just lying to people and eventually the lies got
to be too much. But back to the oil price situation,
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I think Clay again, this is gonna be relatively short term,
and as long as that's the case, it will be fine.
Here's Energy Secretary Chris Wright, though we've had him on
the show. Very interesting guy. This is cut eighteen. He's saying, look,
the Biden administration was playing all kinds of politics with
this and not even using it for this is an
emergency situation. They were just using it to try to
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to try to goose the numbers to look better.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Play eighteen.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
We have about four.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Hundred and fifteen million barrels in storage right now. Very unfortunately,
the Biden administration drained almost three hundred million barrels out,
mostly the lower gasoline prices for a midterm election without
disruptions and energy flows.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's not what the SPR is about.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
The SPR is about this, when we have short term
disruptions and flows to replace those flows, but data, we
will simultaneously sell this oil in the near term when
it's needed and buy long term oil, meaning say twelve
months down the road, and we'll pull out one hundred
and seventy million barrels and we'll put back in two
hundred million barrels in the next year, So we'll actually
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have more oil in our spr a year from now
than we do today.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
That's the responsible way to use it. There you go again.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
And what I think is so important about this is
the only reason this isn't a major, huge treformative danger
for us is because we actually produced so much more oil.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Were the energy superpower of the world. You want to
know why your grocery prices aren't skyrocketing and they're on
oil lines. Go thank and oil man, Go thank somebody
who works for Texico or whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
That's because in the nineteen seventies, for those of you
who lived through it, we were able to be held
hostage effectively, both literally in the sense of what happened
with Iran with our embassy there, but they were able
to hold this hostage. Those of you who remember lining
up and having difficulty getting oil and gas, heck, buck,
I'm reading right now. I love reading about World War two.
(12:38):
You know that during World War Two, Americans were restricted
to four gallons of gas a week, so people barely
drove anywhere because of the huge shortage and the amount
of oil and gas we needed in order to fight
that war. At least they were in Iowa where I'm
reading about. Anyway, I love all of this, but the
reason we now have energy and dependent is because we
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have unleashed the full economic spirit capitalistic success of our
oil and gas industry in a way that frankly didn't
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Hanging out with us as we are rolling through the program.
Here we are joined now by our friend Bill O'Reilly,
who has a brand new show debuting Will Do It Live,
which is one of the most viral Internet videos of
news history. I would suggest, and I love that you're
(15:37):
playing on the virality of that moment. What do you
remember from that day, Like, did you remember that clip
when it sort of started circulatings on social media or
was it so long ago that you had totally forgotten
about it?
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Oh, I was.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Twelve years old, so I figured the statue of limitations.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Might have run out on it.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
This is a great story. My whole staff turned on me,
so I was anchoring inside addition, and as I mentioned,
I was barely a teenager and the tech crew couldn't
get their act together and it was super annoying, and
I dropped a couple of f bombs and said, we'll
(16:21):
do it live, which we did, and that was that.
And then years later, when I became let's say notorious
on Fox News, somebody sold that clip wow, a far
left website for a large amount of money, and they
(16:41):
put it out in the viral world and it has become.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Worldwide.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
And when I was in Iceland, I had people yelling
at me we'll do it live, and of course I
threw snowballs back at them. So anyway, we're looking for
a name for this law program we're going to do.
I hate to call it a podcast because podcasts are
basically two guys sitting in basement smoke at pot. That's
(17:10):
not what we do. Okay, It's a long form interview
with somebody you care about and somebody who's not a phony,
and we'll tell the truth. The first guy is Rob
Schneider that drops today, and Snyder goes through how he
suffered in his career because he supports Donald Trump, and
(17:33):
he talks about Jimmy Kimmel. I mean, it's fascinating stuff
I've never heard before. But anyway, my staff, you're all younger. Oh,
we have a great name for this show. I said, okay,
what is it.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
We'll do it live. They all started to laugh.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
So not only did they turn against me, but they
wont I surrendered it all right, I don't care what
you call a damn show, but I didn't drop any
F bombs.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I gotta tell you, Bill, we all we love. We
love the name. The audience loves the name. It's a
great it's a great name.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That clip of you is one of just like the
ten greatest viral and that was it was released pretty
early on in the viral internet game, so it really
had residents.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But we'll do it. We'll do it live.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I mean that line has probably been translated into one
hundred and fifty languages.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Now.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
I know it's unbelieving. If I had known who would
go like that, I would have done him many more times.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh, you guys, have it a couple of bleeps here,
but that the team wants to play it a little
throwback here Bill inside edition. He's just a teenager. He
just started shaving, and here he is on Inside Edition.
Play it tomorrow, and that is it for us today,
and we will leave you with a I.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Can't do it. We'll do it live.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Okay, we'll do it lit, do it live.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I can all write it, and we'll do it a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh wait, is that okay? That that's we'll do it live.
There you go, Bill, Everyone knows the cliff.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
By the way, guys, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You're welcome. We got we got you, we got you.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So that's gonna be a great series and ever should
go check it out Billilly dot com. There's no I
gotta say hard turn here, Bill, because we're going we're
having a fun trip with you down nostalgia lane there.
But now we got to focus in on you know,
world peace, fixing America, all that stuff for a second.
How concerned are you? You're a balls and strikes calling guy.
How concerned are you with this campaign? Iran oil price spike?
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Does Trump really know what the endgame is here? Do
you feel like this is going according to plan? Or
are you getting worried about it?
Speaker 9 (19:45):
Well, any kind it's military action.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
I'm concerned.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
From the very beginning of the adventure, if you want
to use that word.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
It was a huge risk. The presidents aware of it.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
If it goes his way, he will, I think, kind
of pulled himself into the top area of the presidential sweepstakes,
which is important to him his legacy. If it doesn't,
then the Republicans are likely to lose the midterms, so
a lot on the line. There's not one modern president
who would have done this. Maybe Teddy Roosevelt, but he
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wasn't a modern guy. But even Teddy might have said,
you know, it's just too much uncertainty here. So the
thinking was that Iron is not going to stop developing
a nuclear weapon even though we hit them in June
of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
They have other places.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Where they're developing this and they admit it.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
It's not like he said. She said.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
And in the last negotiation with Witkoff in Geneva, Switzerland,
the Iranian foreign minister basic say, look, we're gonna We're
not going to stop. We're going to develop this suclear
weapon and we don't care what you think. That was
it for Trump.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
That was the end, and.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
Then the president waited for an opening. The opening came
when the Israeli intelligence massaw It pinpointed the Iatolin twenty
five of his thug cronies, we're all going to be
together on a Saturday morning in a specific place in Tehran.
That information got to President Trump. He said, okay, uh, well,
(21:33):
let the Israelis wipe them off the face of the earth,
which happened, and then we'll follow up and destroy the
infrastructure of Iran's ability to wage offensive war, which is
underway now and which will succeed.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
Now.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
The unintended consequences are how much pain is that going
to cause the world economically. And the other unintended consequence
is that a lot of the media, the world, world
wide media, not just America, is rooting against America. They
want Iran to win, which is absolutely shocking to me
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because this is a murderous nation. This is the third
Reich Light. They killed thirty thousand of their own people
a few weeks ago, thirty thousand, and you're rooting for
them to win. You want Trump to be humiliated. That's
what you're putting forth on CNN, the New York Times
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and others. That's what you want, really think about it.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
That is really a tipping point. Now.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
President Trump himself believes what he wants to believe, and
he is convinced that the United States and Israel will
wipe out Iran's ability to wage offensive war. I believe
that is true, but the economic outcome is cloudy, and
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that could mean the Democrats win the midterms of November.
And that's what we're looking at right now.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Bill, you may have talked to President Trump and actually
given him this advice. If you did, or if you
were asked what should victory look like here, what would
you suggest to President Trump? Given where we are right
now we've wiped out certainly a lot of the air Force,
a lot of the Navy, a lot of the military
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capabilities of Iran are gone. We'll see whether or not
Mojtaba the sun here is or is not alive and
able to take power. But what would you say to
President Trump? Is an off ramp here? What should an
end in hostilities look like from a United States perspective?
Speaker 9 (23:50):
Well, I did talk to President about it in a
one on one phone conversation. He called me, I never
call him. I mean, that's all my job, and he's
a president. I'm not going to intrude. And he said,
what would you do? And I said, I negotiate it
down to the fact that there'll be routine expects inside
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Iran and they're not to develop a ballistic myscical capacity.
You have to downgrade revolutionary guard, and you have to
become a nation that does not wage war constantly or
finance terrorism. That's a negotiation the degree to that. Then
you would help them rebuild their economy. The problem is
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that Oroon will say they'll do it, and then they
won't do it.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
We all know that.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
But that negotiated settlement I think still could happen, but
they're going to have to experience a lot of pain
before the Iranians get to that place, and.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
So no one can say when that will end.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
I mean it's like asking General Patent, you know, when
he's up trying to defeat the Nazis in Baston, how
is this gonna take General, you know, I mean, come on,
it's war. Those questions are ridiculous and stupid and immature
and designed to produce gotcha results. And that's all the
American press.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Well how long?
Speaker 8 (25:18):
How long?
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Nobody knows, and the American people it's a we have
a soft society. We don't want to be inconvenience to
pay more money for anything. And then you know, you
got to hate Trumpers. So it's very complicated. But I
think what will happen is that Iran will come back
to the table and there'll be some kind of an
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agreement to neuter them as a state sponsored terrorist outfit.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Hey Bill, Well, first off, everyone make sure you check
out first episode today of Uh We'll do It, We'll
Do It Live, which is up on Billarilly dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Go watch the show.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
It's got robs who would give you a lot of
credit to for being a Hollywood guy who's been right
wing and right wing for a long time. Bill one
more topic for you before we got ahead into the break,
So we'll do a kind of shorter version on it.
But this Save America Act, we're getting so much from
everyone listening about talk more about the Save America Act.
You got to push the Save America Act. And I
(26:21):
get it, and I agree with it, and I wish
it would pass. But I also feel like Majority Leader
Thoon plus about four or five other senators aren't going
to pass this thing.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
So what are we supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I mean, do you think that is there a world
in which there's enough pressure, enough phone calls on these senators?
You know, I don't think you're getting McConnell and Murkowski
and said they're not going to vote for this thing.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
McConnell, will Mkowsky won't. But you need sixty to get
it to the Senate. Floyd, they're not going to get
that soon knows it. He'll put it up for a
vote next week. But this hurts the Democratic Party big time.
Go seventy nine. The American public and that close. A
lot of Democrats obviously want voter ID and all the
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socialist countries in Europe have it, and there's no reason
not to have it. So the Republicans are going, yeah,
we know we're not going to get it through the
Senate's already passed the houses, you guys know, but you know,
the damage that the Republican that the Democrats are going
to do to themselves may be worth it. And that's
the way our system is. So you need sixty votes
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to get it to a vote on the floor in
the Senate. Now there's an effort to knock out the filibusterer.
I don't think that's wise, but that could happen. And
the American people understand that in order to diminish voter fraud,
you've got to prove that you're an American citizen, which
is the federal law.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Do you But do you believe these reports that McConnell
is stalling it that you know, you say he'll vote
for it, but.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
Now he's barely cognizant, the guy who's just limbit to
the finish Yeah, I mean, he doesn't you know, I
have any.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Presents at all? Don't.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Murkowski is not really a Republican, okay, and she hates
Trump so much that anything Trump supports, he she'll oppose.
I don't expect any of the defections, even crazy Ram Paul.
I mean, you just can't. But the Democrats, I mean,
that's a bad hell for them to stand on.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
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On the new show.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
Always fun talking to you guys. Thanks for having me.
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Third hour of Play and Book gets going right now
we're joined by Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri. Now, Senator,
thanks for stopping by.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Let's start with the Save Acts.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
Sir.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
We have so many people who are paying close attention
to this, a lot of listeners all across America who
are saying, this seems like a must, This seems so straightforward,
so necessary as a law, and of course Democrats oppose it.
Is there any realistic path forward for this? What is
the best outcome as you see it, for the Save
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Act that's realistic? What do you want to happen?
Speaker 10 (30:43):
Well, we need to get on it, and the hope
is that next week we will actually be on the
Senate floor with the Save Act. I think that'd be
and by the way, spend some time on it. And
I'm the supporter of this talking filibuster idea. I think
that's what people think happens in Washington and the United
States Senate. They think of Jimmy Stewart holding the floor
and the Senate the old line is that operates by
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unanimous consent or exhaustion, And I think the Democrats should
have to own this and earn it if they want
to block the idea that you have to be a
US citizen to vote, you have to show an idea
to vote that we're not going to allow mass mailing
balloting scams, we're not going to allow transgender surgery for miners,
and we should allow boys and women's sports men and
women's sports. That's what this will do. And those are
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common sense proposals. They're eighty twenty issues. They might be
higher than that. And I think it's really important, most
importantly for protecting the election security and regain the trust
of the American people.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
So my hope is that we're on it, we stay
on it.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
So if we go to the talking filibuster, there have
been all sorts of different reports that I have read
about what that actually looks like, what that means, what
do you anticipate a talking filibuster would look like, and
how does it end?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
How does it progress?
Speaker 10 (31:58):
So you got to get on the and if we
take the House bill, and forgive me if I get
in the weeds.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
But since you asked the question.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
So the House bill, it only requires fifty one votes
to get on it, right, So we can take the
House Bill that's been passed and then it is before
the Senate, and then at that point amendments are in order.
You know, I'm working closely with the White House on this,
and or Lee amendments would be in order. So that
version that came over has two provisions. It doesn't have
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the mail in piece, it doesn't have the transgender piece,
it doesn't have the men and women's sports piece. So
we would be able to amend it. And then at
that point, and that's a majority vote. When you're on amendments,
then at that point we need to get to a
final vote. And the one way you can get to
the final vote is that you just run out of
Democrats that want to hold the floor for hours and hours. Now,
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the commitment from the Republican side is that we need
to make sure we hold a quorum for the whole
time that this happens. Meaning if a Democrat says, hey,
I knowe the absence of a quorum, meaning there's not
enough people in the chamber, there have to be fifty
one Republicans that are there to maintain the quorum.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
So this is something that used to happen.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
I think the Senate's got kind of lazy with the
way we do it now, where you just come in
and you clock in a vote and it takes to
gets you to sixty. So this is about holding the
floor voting on amendments for a period of time.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
That's how it would play out.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Now, speaking of the floor, I believe you've been on
the Senate floor asking for unanimous consent to defund to
fund rather the Department of Homeland Security for the next
two weeks. Where does that stand. I assume Democrats are
either have blocked it or are going to block it.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Yeah, they blocked it.
Speaker 10 (33:35):
So basically the Democrats are blocking funding for homeland Security,
you know. So the irony here is they let fifteen
million people in this country, some of them are terrorists,
many are murderers and even more violent criminals. But they're
defunding Homeland Security. That's what their position is. So they're
blocking our efforts to fund it because they're having a
temper tantrum about ICE. What it's really about, guys, is
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they don't actually think we should enforce our immigration laws.
They don't like the result in twenty twenty four. They
don't care that American mothers and daughters are being raped
and murdered by illegal immigrants, and ices a job to do.
We've set out what their job is in our laws
that have been repassed, passed by Republicans and Democrats, and
enforced by the way by Republicans and Democrats and previous administrations.
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But what we saw with Joe Biden was unprecedent. He
threw open the border. Millions of people are here. President
Trump ran on deporting those folks.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
And here we're we're at.
Speaker 10 (34:28):
They don't like the results, so they just wanted to
fund ICE. That's what this comes down to. So in
the crosshairs that in the mix there in that dh
Fundy Bill is TSA, the Coast Guard, all these agencies
that outside of ICE, and the Democrats are blocking funding
because of Trump arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Okay, let's you're breaking down everything going on in that context.
We're hearing about hours and hours that everybody's having to
stand in line, and at some point, especially with it
being spring break week, people just look around in their
a You may not be paying attention to what's funded
and what's not. We've got an alleged shooting that you
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may or may not have seen that took place in
West Bloomfield, Michigan. Reports are that the shooter is believed
to be dead. We know what happened in Austin, Texas,
where unfortunately a couple of people were murdered by what
appears to have been a deranged lunatic. And we know
in New York City there were just a couple of
IEDs thrown that fortunately did not go off, but could
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have killed many people. Isn't it absolutely beyond the pale
absurd that we would be in a situation where I
think the number right now is three hundred some odd
TSA agents have just said, hey, I've got to quit,
I've got to find a new job, or I've got
to make money right now, that Democrats would be refusing
to fund these individuals.
Speaker 10 (35:47):
It's crazy. I mean, it's so stupid. Clay, I don't.
I mean, I've seen a lot of stuff in politics.
I've seen a lot of argument. It's just so dumb.
But they're obsessed there. First of all, they hate President Trump,
and that may manifest itself in many different ways. But
they thought they had some moment I think in Minneapolis,
that they were going to be able to ultimately prevent
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law enforcement from doing their jobs by overloading them with
burdens that they can't. You know, we can talk about
what those are, but basically it would render ICE unable
to deport people. That's what they want, and so they
are willing to hold all of this hostage. And now
the legacy media will go along with it and they'll
create some issue about some negotiation on this. But it's
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very simple. Republicans just voted, just now, voted to fund TSA,
to fund ICE, to fund Secret Service, to fund the
Coast Guard, and the Democrats have voted No, it's not
that complicated. It's stupid, but it's not complicated.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Senator Schmidt with US now and Senator I think that
this war in Iran or whatever, we haven't really come
up with something other than a word to call it.
I guess this overseas aerial campaign against the Iranian military
definitely acts of war going on. The President seems very
confident that this is both achieving its objectives and will
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be limited in scope, and he is in charge of
that scope. What's your sense as to how this is
going so far and what's your confidence level that this
will be wrapped up, say, by the end of the month.
Speaker 10 (37:19):
Yeah, I mean, I think the President's committed to accomplishing
the objectives as he laid out, and essentially, in a nutshell,
the nuclear program that we had a devastating blow to
with the B two's out of Missouri. By the way,
last summer, AROM was basically creating this missile shield, this
conventional ballistic missile shield to protect it for their future ambitions,
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and that's being wiped out now. So that's really the mission.
We had a briefing earlier this week. They're ahead of
schedule on that, and I think the President's committed to
doing this. He understands the concerns that people would have
about having another forever war in the Middle East. I
don't think he wants that, but he's committed to this mission.
I think they're accomplishing that right now.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Much less.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Seriously, I saw you Friday at the President's College Sports Roundtable,
and I know you have entered introduced a bill alongside
of a Democrat colleague that would help to rectify the
mess that is college athletics.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
What would it do? Are you optimistic that it can
be a solution it?
Speaker 10 (38:20):
Look, it's the first five partisan bill that's been introduced
on this on this measure, and I think that's a
significant development to set the stage. College athletics right now
is very chaotic in college football by and large, for
years has essentially been the cash cow that funds all
the non revenue sports, women's sports, Olympic sports, even sports
like baseball that don't really generate revenue save a couple
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of schools here or there. Because of the new system
that we have right now, you know, it's just a
matter of time, and I think that time's.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Pretty soon where you're just going to start.
Speaker 10 (38:52):
Seeing all that programming dropped and all those scholarships drop
for people who you know, can change their lives.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
So what's the solution?
Speaker 10 (38:58):
I was skeptical Clambuck about Congress if you had ask
me this two years ago, I'd been why is Congress
considering anything here? But the truth is Congress is the
only entity on the planet that can grant anti trust
exemption to some governing body to set some rules, transfer rules,
eligibility rules, agent rules, things that they can't do right
now because of lawsuits have basically rendered the ncaa fecklist.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
They can't do anything.
Speaker 10 (39:19):
So we can do that, but I don't think you
solve the governance problem or the challenges in college sports
without revenue that basically pay for these sports, right these
non revenue women's sports, the Olympic sports that we all love.
And so our proposals Senator Camptell and I from Washington
are that looked. The NFL, the NBA, MLB, they all
have anti trust exemption to collectively negotiate to pool their
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media rights. Okay, and to just give you a statistic,
the NBA has half the audience of college football, but
twice the revenue. The NBA generates about eight billion. College
football is about four billion, but they have twice the
eyeballs every week. And so you know the SEC and
Big ten are big players in that. But what we
could do is our bill says, look you can pull
your media rights respect the conferences. They're going to bring
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in the lion's share of the revenue. But that bargaining
will be great for fans because think about it. With
the NFL, you can there's different channels. There's a Sunday
night game, there's a Monday night game, there's a Thursday
night game. College football. The interest is growing, and you
can actually have a system here where Fox and ESPN
album are bidding bidding, bidding, bidding up those dollars that
can protect those sports and it'll be great for the fans.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
How optimistic are you that this thing is going to pass?
Speaker 10 (40:28):
I think this component is key. I don't think you
can just do the governance piece and get to sixty
votes in the Senate, right. I think there has to
be a carrot here where everybody feels like they're growing.
So if you're if you're a school that's been kind
of left behind on some of this stuff, on the
revenue that's been generated for the you know, the conferences
they're doing exceedingly well.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
There's a reason for them to do it. I think.
And look, I'm a Mazoo guy. I love Miszoo.
Speaker 10 (40:49):
They're in the SEC I love SEC football. I think
they're going to do well in this model too, So
I'm optimistic that the next phase the House is probably
going to play vote on something next week, just the
Score Act, which is just the governance piece. I think
the thing at the White House last week added momentum.
I think we're going to be hopefully. The next step
in the Senate is a hearing in the Commerce Committee,
where I serve on, and this will be heard out,
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and I think that's where the work will be done
to try to find a compromise to literally save college sports.
If we don't get this done this year or maybe
next year, but I think this year is very important.
I think the landscape looks different forever, and if we
fix it, I should say, we give them the tools
to fix it. I think it changes thing for the
next fifty years, will be great for fans.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Good stuff as always, Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri. We
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Speaker 1 (43:24):
I want to update you guys on the latest.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
This is from Foxnews and I just sent it and
let me make sure that I read this correctly. Authority
say the shooter involved in the attack at Temple Israel
that's outside of Detroit, Michigan, found badly burned after crashing
a village into the crashing a vehicle into the building,
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which then caught fire arms security engaged in a shootout
and fatally shot the would be attacker. Also CNN reporting,
and this may be why he was badly burned. That
the vehicle was filled with explosives.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
So that would explain a lot here because you would
have somebody who tried to create a vbied a vehicle
born improvised explosive device, essentially a car suicide bomber, and
the bomb didn't go off. Making bombs is fortunately harder
than a lot of people think it is, especially if
you've never done it before. Near miss, it seems to
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Clay looks like no casualties, no good guy, no good goal,
casualties in the synagogue, only this guy taken out right.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (44:35):
And again this now suggests Austin, New York City, Detroit, Virginia,
all with the same motive that is a violent terror attack.
We bring in now Senator John Cornyn of Texas.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
He is with us.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
We got a bunch to get into with the Senator,
We appreciate the time. Let's start with this primary runoff
against Ken Paxton in late May. Pro President Trump has
said that he is going to endorse, but has held
off on endorsing. Do you expect him to endorse you?
What impact do you think the President's endorsement in Texas
(45:11):
would have?
Speaker 11 (45:13):
Well, I've told the President that I thought his endorsement
would be very impactful and I would be delighted if
he chooses to endorse endorse me in the race. So far,
he's not done that, and you know, people ask me, well,
what's he going to do? And my usual response is
there's only one person on the planet who knows the
(45:35):
answer to that, and it's not me. So we're not
We're continuing to work hard toward that May twenty six runoff,
and if the President decides to make an endorsement, that
would be that'd be great news.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
Senator Corny, appreciate you being with us. My understanding is,
and feel free to correct any part of this because
there's a lot of senators and I can't know everything
that all of you have ever thought or said. My
understanding is that you've long been in the past a
defender of the Senate filibuster rule, so a sixty vote
threshold for most legislation, but that you just recently published
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why the Save Act matters more than the filibuster?
Speaker 1 (46:15):
Am I right? Is that where you are now? Is
that really?
Speaker 2 (46:19):
Is that a major departure, a major change, and you're
feeling about the filibuster and what brought you to this
Because you're going to have some critics who say, well,
this is just because you're up for reelection and you
want to seem like you're going to give the base
what it wants.
Speaker 11 (46:34):
Well, the filibuster has stopped a lot of really bad legislation.
When the Democrats were in charge, they've proposed packing the
Supreme Court, making Puerto Rico in the district of Columbia
States and getting two Democratic senators each and permanently changing
the country. So the filibuster has worked well stop bad stuff.
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But we're in much different times now, and with the
Trump derangement syndrome and the polarization up here in Congress,
Democrats just reflexibly oppose everything that Trump has proposed or
that Republicans want, including paying the Transportation Security Agency agents
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and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. They didn't do anything wrong,
but they're the people being punished now by this second
shutdown of a significant part of the federal government. So
I would I long for the day when you would
have these two political parties who were obviously have different
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priorities and different ideas about how to govern, but where
there is still the possibility of finding some common ground
and working to build consensus. I think that's good for
the country when we can do that, because any short
term measures that one party or the other passed can
changed the next time the Congress slips. So I would
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call this a really kind of an evolution of my
views that fit the times. I don't think it's okay
for us to just tell my constituents in Texas we
can't get anything done because the Democrats won't cooperate. And
we know, as the President has pointed out, that when
the shoe is on the other foot, when they're in
the majority, they will blow up the philibuster immediately. So
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I said, I'm open to the talking philibuster, which we
hope to use on the Save America Act and potentially
other reforms as well.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
We're talking to Senator John Cornyn of Texas. He's gonna
runoff against Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, on May
twenty six. We know that one of you will be
running against James Talerico, who frankly seems like a very
far left wing and radical nominee for the Democrats. Do
you believe that you would beat taller Ico worse than
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Ken Paxton would and is that one reason why you
would argue people should vote for you in this upcoming runoff.
Speaker 11 (49:10):
Yes, that's exactly right. I will be at the top
of the ticket as the nominee. And in twenty twenty
last time I ran, I won by ten points, which
means that not only will we keep the Senate seat
in Republican hands, but it will help down ballot races,
including these five new congressional seats that were drawn as
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a result of redistricting to hopefully help keep the majority
in the House. The Attorney General has so much political
baggage that I think it's an open question whether he
could actually even win. So this thus the prospect or
the possibility of actually losing a red state Senate seat
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in this election. And even if we were to win
by the skin of his teeth, I would think he
will not win by a margin that will help down
ballot and it'll cost hundreds of millions of dollars to
try to salvage him and salvage this red seat. So
that is part of the argument that we've been making,
and I know the President and his team are fully
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aware of.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
Okay, So let's say that you weren't the nominee. Let's
say Ken Paxton one or vice versa. Would you campaign
heartily for whoever the Republican nominee is, and do you
expect that he would campaign for you in order to
make sure that this seat, as you just laid out,
doesn't end up in Democrat hands or doesn't even end
up hopefully competitive, so that there's not having to be
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a ton of money spent on it. In other words,
you win, that's great, You're going to be working hard.
Do you expect his endorsement if you lose? Will you
endorse him?
Speaker 11 (50:51):
Well, first of all, I expect to win. But to
answer your question, I've worked most of my adult life
trying to build the Republican park, both at the state
level and at the national level. My first state wide
election was in nineteen ninety when we still were basically
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a divided state. We had a Democratic governor that year,
Anne Richards, for example. But to answer your question, I
would support the Republican ticket. I think that's the best
answer I can give you.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
Speaking of Senator Cornyn of Texas and a senator, why
would you be better? I mean a lot of times
it comes down for some people trying something new. You've
obviously been in the Senate for quite some time. Why
would it be better to have you representing Texas than
attorney Attorney General Paxton? And how would you address any
(51:50):
critics that you have who say that you're not as
maga when it counts as you'd like to appear at
election time. Because we get a lot of emails, a
lot of callers, and this is something that we hear.
Wanted to give you an opportunity to just lay it
out there for everybody.
Speaker 11 (52:06):
Well, thank you. I think a lot of this has
to do with personalities and temperament. I spent thirteen years
of my life as a judge and then as Attorney
general before I got to the Senate, and I always
like to tell people I'm a conservative. I'm just not
mad about it. But the point is, what the what
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what you've done? And that's one reason why in Texas
and our advertising we pointed out that I have voted
with the president ninety nine point three percent of the time.
Was that's a better number than Ted Cruz, the junior
centator from Texas, by the way, And secondly, you know,
we need somebody who can be effective for the state.
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So when the governor called me and said, look, Texas
taxpayers have had to step up and pay eleven billion
dollars to help secure the border. When Biden wouldn't, he
called me and we worked with the Texas delegation to
get that done, and so we are expecting a nice
check from the federal government to the Texas taxpayer of
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eleven billion dollars. It takes some experience and relationships to
be able to get that done, and I think I
think my effectiveness on behalf of thirty two million Texas
is something that separates me from the Attorney general.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
We're talking to John Cornyn, Senator from Texas runoff May
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (53:30):
When you looked.
Speaker 3 (53:31):
At the results, you won the primary in the first
goal around, you had the most votes.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
Were you surprised by that? Did you expect it? What
did that?
Speaker 3 (53:40):
What does that outcome tell people about Texas?
Speaker 11 (53:45):
Well, I would there's nothing guaranteed, but I was optimistic
that I would win, and that was you know, there
have been a lot of trash what I call trash talk,
including the Attorney General who said he could win without
a runoff, and obviously that didn't materialized. So you know,
we've been only about eleven percent of registered voters voted
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in the Republican primary. Thankfully, people who didn't vote in
the primary can vote in the run off. But you know,
a lot of this has to do with motivating your
voters and getting them to the polls. In the end,
winning elections isn't all that complicated. It's about who gets
the most votes. And we simply worked hard to try
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to encourage as many people as we can to vote
in the Republican primary. Even so, the Democrats out voted us,
which should be a warning shot across our bout.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
Senator.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
You know, we got a lot of emails because we
asked for questions, and you know, for example, I'll just
let you address this. We have one VIP who wrote
in and said, I believe Senator Kornyan voted against Pete
hegg Sath for DoD secretary now Secretary of War. You
voted yes for Pete hag Sath, if memory serve, am
I correct on that?
Speaker 1 (54:59):
Correct?
Speaker 5 (55:00):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Yeah, Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
There are some of the questions we get are actually
not fair to just to call the balls and strikes
your center, the not fair to your record. People seem
to think for some reason that you have voted not
ninety nine percent of the time with Trump.
Speaker 5 (55:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (55:16):
Well, the president knows what my record is, and he
calls me a friend. And there was some indication that
he was prepared to endorse me after leading in the
primary on March third. Obviously, as we said, the timing
of that and if it happens is entirely up to him.
But I think the President views me as an ally
(55:37):
and somebody who supported him, and I think he appreciates that.
You know, I was there on the front lines during
the confirmation of three new Supreme Court justices. When we
passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in twenty seventeen.
I was the whip who helped get the get that
across the finish line. So a lot of the campaign
(55:58):
is about reminding people about what my record is and
frankly disabusing people of some of the falsehoods that are
out there. So I appreciate you giving me an opportunity
to address that.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
Senator Corny, thank you for coming on the show and
taking our questions. And godspeed to you and we'll talk
to you soon.
Speaker 11 (56:16):
Thank you very much, appreciate it.
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show,
known to many as Clay and Buck, that starts right now,
and we got so much to get to. Let me
just give you a little bit of an outline before
we dive into all the biggest stories today. Uncle Bill
Bill O'Reilly joining us hour two. Talk to him about
how this whole Iran war thing is going and the
(00:23):
Save Act, Save America Act.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Have that discussion.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Senator Eric Schmidt will be with us, and we will
also have Senator John Cornyn with us. I would say
to any of you who have we have a lot
of Texans who listen Texas or California. Well those are
the two biggest states by population, so it's not really
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if we can get a couple of them to him
on the air today as he is in this primary,
this contested primary, wondering if there will be a Trump endorsement.
(01:09):
That's a lot of eyeballs on this one, so we
will get to that. Three guests today, two Senators, Uncle Bill,
and now we can get into some of the news today.
Clay Little Mo as Clay calls him, Iran's new supreme
leader much Taba Kamina has issued a statement, but he
(01:30):
is well. Someone has issued a statement on his behalf.
He is apparently in a coma and missing a leg,
so he got hit in one of these air strikes
and they are putting.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Him forward as the future of Iran.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That certainly goes to what level of pressure the leadership
of Iran is under that even there next up at
Bat is having to have statements released from others around
him because he's in a coma from an air strike.
So essentially, the next person who raises their hand in
Iran and says I'm going to continue the Islamic revolution
(02:08):
in this country and i shall continue to fight against
the Great Satan and the Little Satan probably going to
get blown up. That is where we are right now,
at least while these hostilities, these aerial campaign continues. Clay
oil price has surged a bit and there are concerns
as well, after two tankers were attacked, and I believe
(02:31):
are on fire in the straight of horror moves. So
they're continuing to try to go after the oil, the
global oil industry as their choke point, as their way
to hit back at US. Also, Trump monitoring Iranian terror
sleeper cells. A lot of concern about that, and I
(02:52):
think rightly concern concern about that, and we shall discuss that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So Clay, I mean, first one.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Up here, we are in another day of this aerial campaign.
We now know that Munchtaba is in a coma. Little
mo is having a tough one. What do you think
about the latest here with the attacks on oil, oil
shipping and trying to make this a global environmental and
(03:21):
economic catastrophe to get this to stop, that's clearly the
Iranians play.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think it actually is going to make President Trump angrier,
and I think it's actually going to result in a
worse outcome for Iran than if they allowed the oil
to transit without issues at all. And I'm pulling up
to check the oil price as we speak right now,
because it has been probably the number one story that
(03:46):
is out there, and it's hanging right around ninety dollars
a barrel, And you say, okay, Clay, where does that compare?
Is around sixty five dollars if I remember correctly, before
this war started, and now it's right around ninety dollars.
It went all the way up to one hundred and
twenty dollars Sunday in the opening hours of the of
(04:09):
the market, beginning with danger and fear, and so then
it crashed all the way back down to like seventy five.
It's come back up to around ninety. It's bounced around
a lot, and I think the question is how safe
is the Strait of Hormuz and what does that mean
for overall pricing of oil and gas? Now President Trump
(04:31):
has released I think it's one hundred and eighty million
barrels is what I saw from this strategic reserve. There's
four hundred million worldwide being released. My understanding, Buck, is
that that takes a couple of weeks to actually come
into the marketplace as a whole, because it takes a
while for all of those all those barrels of oil
(04:52):
to reach the marketplace.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, I stand corrected on that one. Chuck Schumer said,
do it, and Trump's actually doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
The Democrats are going to hit him for having to
do that, but the oil shock seems severe enough that
some effort to soften the blow is a blow to
your wallets essentially is underway. So there you go, Chuck
Schumer giving some good advice to his opposition. Hey, Clay,
even a broken clock, you know, So I'll take the
(05:20):
l on that one. Trump's doing it. This has cut
seventeen on gas prices. Trump last night at joint Base
Andrews hit it.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I say a timeline on when you're planning to tap
this Strateina petroleum. Preserve a timeline of.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
When that we're going to be doing it very quickly,
and then we'll fill it up. We'll fill up our reserves,
you know, if you remember I filled them up.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
And then I had a deal to go at the
highest level.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
A level that's never been and Schumer and the Democrats
for twenty five dollars, and it was turned down. You
remember that, Peter, almost before your time, but not quite,
but it was. We had a deal at twenty five dollars.
Think of that, twenty five dollars a barrel, and the
Democrats turned that, We're we're gonna tap it out like
it's never a bit, but they turned that down and
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now it's a.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Lot higher, played Trump, of course, saying Democrats had no
foresight on this issue. Not a surprise, but there's enough
of a jolt of the oil markets that there's serious
and immediate action being taken to stabilize things.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Look, and I think this is where the average American
is going to feel to the extent we do anything
going on with Iran is in oil and gas prices.
And I would just point out that two years of
oil and gas prices coming down, by and large, was
not a story that is almost I watch these television
(06:45):
broadcasts of the news almost every at least three hours
every day.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
While I'm talking to all of you.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I have never seen CNN or MSNBC do a story
on boy, President Trump has really brought down gas prices
during his tenure in office. Never seen a story about
gas prices going down for a year and a half.
And now gas prices have gone up for a week
and it's the lead story on MSNBC and CNN. And
(07:12):
by the way, Buck, it vanished when oil and gas
prices went back down to seventy five. Now that they've
come back up to ninety. We're back to covering oil
and gas prices again. And they put the picture of
the oil and gas prices in the corner of the screen.
Right now, the talk talking point on CNN is oil
and gas prices, and talking point on MSNBC is oil
(07:33):
and gas prices. So I do think when it's a
good story, right for the year and a half that
the prices came down, not one mention of it for
the one week they've gone back up. Oh my goodness,
this is a story that we have.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
To cover well.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
As we know, journalism in America has foury fully morphed
into it's not about what you should know, it's about
telling the audience what they want to know.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, what they want to hear, what they want to watch.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And that's really the case over at CNN, at MSNBC,
at MS now it's the case of Fox too. I
don't live in some delusional world. I mean, Fox is
going to have a right of center point of view.
But there's more, there's so much more honesty about that.
I mean, their primetime lineup, our opinion hosts. CNN still pretends,
CNN still pretends that they're just journalists, just Anderson.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Cooper could vote either way. Who knows? Does he love Trump?
Does he hate Trump?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Oil prices important today, unimportant yesterday?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I wonder why.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I also think this is important, and I think it
has been under discussed and it continues to be under discussed.
You can criticize Fox, and you can criticize them. You know,
they have sixty six percent of the news audience whatever
the heck. It is sixty percent on any given day,
bigger than MSNBC and CNN combined. Their entire business is
(08:50):
based on advertising, so their audience responds to things and
they cover it. That used to be the overarching way
that everybody made money. Now the New York Times makes money.
Washington Post makes money off subscriptions, and that's a very
different business model because subscribers want to be told that
(09:11):
their worldview is correct. When you're pegged to advertising, you're
trying to reach the biggest possible audience because that's how
you get paid. We get paid based on advertising, So
the bigger the audience is, the more money this show makes.
We're not making money off subscriptions. The New York Times.
Subscription changes the calculus of how the business is run.
(09:32):
And I was just looking. This just came across the line.
Buck New York Times has stunned me. Has doubled the
number of journalists that employees in the last ten years.
They have twenty three hundred journalists now, doubled what they
had just ten years ago. And that's to serve subscribers,
it's not to provide the best possible outcome to the
(09:56):
media ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I also, though, think that there's and this has been
the case for a long time. This has been an
argument that I've been making since before I was in media.
There's a fundamental honesty with Fox News that which which
I think is part of why the audience is so durable,
sticky if you will, And it stays with Fox Watch.
There's a fundamental honesty about Yeah, of course, like the
(10:18):
opening mind, like Jesse Waters isn't sitting there like I
don't have any opinions. I'm just I'm just presenting the
objective news. Like that's insane. These other channels have been
doing this game of we're just we're just news. Yeah,
I'm not going the same thing with ABC News and
these other things. Same thing with those They're just lying,
They're just lying to people and eventually the lies got
to be too much. But back to the oil price situation,
(10:41):
I think Clay again, this is gonna be relatively short term,
and as long as that's the case, it will be fine.
Here's Energy Secretary Chris Wright, though we've had him on
the show. Very interesting guy. This is cut eighteen. He's saying, look,
the Biden administration was playing all kinds of politics with
this and not even using it for this is an
emergency situation. They were just using it to try to
(11:03):
to try to goose the numbers to look better.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Play eighteen.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
We have about four.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Hundred and fifteen million barrels in storage right now. Very unfortunately,
the Biden administration drained almost three hundred million barrels out,
mostly the lower gasoline prices for a midterm election without
disruptions and energy flows.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's not what the SPR is about.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
The SPR is about this, when we have short term
disruptions and flows to replace those flows, but data, we
will simultaneously sell this oil in the near term when
it's needed and buy long term oil, meaning say twelve
months down the road, and we'll pull out one hundred
and seventy million barrels and we'll put back in two
hundred million barrels in the next year, So we'll actually
(11:44):
have more oil in our spr a year from now
than we do today.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
That's the responsible way to use it. There you go again.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
And what I think is so important about this is
the only reason this isn't a major, huge treformative danger
for us is because we actually produced so much more oil.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Were the energy superpower of the world. You want to
know why your grocery prices aren't skyrocketing and they're on
oil lines. Go thank and oil man, Go thank somebody
who works for Texico or whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
That's because in the nineteen seventies, for those of you
who lived through it, we were able to be held
hostage effectively, both literally in the sense of what happened
with Iran with our embassy there, but they were able
to hold this hostage. Those of you who remember lining
up and having difficulty getting oil and gas, heck, buck,
I'm reading right now. I love reading about World War two.
(12:38):
You know that during World War Two, Americans were restricted
to four gallons of gas a week, so people barely
drove anywhere because of the huge shortage and the amount
of oil and gas we needed in order to fight
that war. At least they were in Iowa where I'm
reading about. Anyway, I love all of this, but the
reason we now have energy and dependent is because we
(13:01):
have unleashed the full economic spirit capitalistic success of our
oil and gas industry in a way that frankly didn't
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Welcome man, our number two Thursday edition Clay and Buck.
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We appreciate all of you.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Hanging out with us as we are rolling through the program.
Here we are joined now by our friend Bill O'Reilly,
who has a brand new show debuting Will Do It Live,
which is one of the most viral Internet videos of
news history. I would suggest, and I love that you're
(15:37):
playing on the virality of that moment. What do you
remember from that day, Like, did you remember that clip
when it sort of started circulatings on social media or
was it so long ago that you had totally forgotten
about it?
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Oh, I was.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Twelve years old, so I figured the statue of limitations.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Might have run out on it.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
This is a great story. My whole staff turned on me,
so I was anchoring inside addition, and as I mentioned,
I was barely a teenager and the tech crew couldn't
get their act together and it was super annoying, and
I dropped a couple of f bombs and said, we'll
(16:21):
do it live, which we did, and that was that.
And then years later, when I became let's say notorious
on Fox News, somebody sold that clip wow, a far
left website for a large amount of money, and they
(16:41):
put it out in the viral world and it has become.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Worldwide.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
And when I was in Iceland, I had people yelling
at me we'll do it live, and of course I
threw snowballs back at them. So anyway, we're looking for
a name for this law program we're going to do.
I hate to call it a podcast because podcasts are
basically two guys sitting in basement smoke at pot. That's
(17:10):
not what we do. Okay, It's a long form interview
with somebody you care about and somebody who's not a phony,
and we'll tell the truth. The first guy is Rob
Schneider that drops today, and Snyder goes through how he
suffered in his career because he supports Donald Trump, and
(17:33):
he talks about Jimmy Kimmel. I mean, it's fascinating stuff
I've never heard before. But anyway, my staff, you're all younger. Oh,
we have a great name for this show. I said, okay,
what is it.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
We'll do it live. They all started to laugh.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
So not only did they turn against me, but they
wont I surrendered it all right, I don't care what
you call a damn show, but I didn't drop any
F bombs.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I gotta tell you, Bill, we all we love. We
love the name. The audience loves the name. It's a
great it's a great name.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That clip of you is one of just like the
ten greatest viral and that was it was released pretty
early on in the viral internet game, so it really
had residents.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But we'll do it. We'll do it live.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I mean that line has probably been translated into one
hundred and fifty languages.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Now.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
I know it's unbelieving. If I had known who would
go like that, I would have done him many more times.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh, you guys, have it a couple of bleeps here,
but that the team wants to play it a little
throwback here Bill inside edition. He's just a teenager. He
just started shaving, and here he is on Inside Edition.
Play it tomorrow, and that is it for us today,
and we will leave you with a I.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Can't do it. We'll do it live.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Okay, we'll do it lit, do it live.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I can all write it, and we'll do it a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh wait, is that okay? That that's we'll do it live.
There you go, Bill, Everyone knows the cliff.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
By the way, guys, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You're welcome. We got we got you, we got you.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So that's gonna be a great series and ever should
go check it out Billilly dot com. There's no I
gotta say hard turn here, Bill, because we're going we're
having a fun trip with you down nostalgia lane there.
But now we got to focus in on you know,
world peace, fixing America, all that stuff for a second.
How concerned are you? You're a balls and strikes calling guy.
How concerned are you with this campaign? Iran oil price spike?
(19:38):
Does Trump really know what the endgame is here? Do
you feel like this is going according to plan? Or
are you getting worried about it?
Speaker 9 (19:45):
Well, any kind it's military action.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
I'm concerned.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
From the very beginning of the adventure, if you want
to use that word.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
It was a huge risk. The presidents aware of it.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
If it goes his way, he will, I think, kind
of pulled himself into the top area of the presidential sweepstakes,
which is important to him his legacy. If it doesn't,
then the Republicans are likely to lose the midterms, so
a lot on the line. There's not one modern president
who would have done this. Maybe Teddy Roosevelt, but he
(20:25):
wasn't a modern guy. But even Teddy might have said,
you know, it's just too much uncertainty here. So the
thinking was that Iron is not going to stop developing
a nuclear weapon even though we hit them in June
of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
They have other places.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Where they're developing this and they admit it.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
It's not like he said. She said.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
And in the last negotiation with Witkoff in Geneva, Switzerland,
the Iranian foreign minister basic say, look, we're gonna We're
not going to stop. We're going to develop this suclear
weapon and we don't care what you think. That was
it for Trump.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
That was the end, and.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
Then the president waited for an opening. The opening came
when the Israeli intelligence massaw It pinpointed the Iatolin twenty
five of his thug cronies, we're all going to be
together on a Saturday morning in a specific place in Tehran.
That information got to President Trump. He said, okay, uh, well,
(21:33):
let the Israelis wipe them off the face of the earth,
which happened, and then we'll follow up and destroy the
infrastructure of Iran's ability to wage offensive war, which is
underway now and which will succeed.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
Now.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
The unintended consequences are how much pain is that going
to cause the world economically. And the other unintended consequence
is that a lot of the media, the world, world
wide media, not just America, is rooting against America. They
want Iran to win, which is absolutely shocking to me
(22:11):
because this is a murderous nation. This is the third
Reich Light. They killed thirty thousand of their own people
a few weeks ago, thirty thousand, and you're rooting for
them to win. You want Trump to be humiliated. That's
what you're putting forth on CNN, the New York Times
(22:31):
and others. That's what you want, really think about it.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
That is really a tipping point. Now.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
President Trump himself believes what he wants to believe, and
he is convinced that the United States and Israel will
wipe out Iran's ability to wage offensive war. I believe
that is true, but the economic outcome is cloudy, and
(23:00):
that could mean the Democrats win the midterms of November.
And that's what we're looking at right now.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Bill, you may have talked to President Trump and actually
given him this advice. If you did, or if you
were asked what should victory look like here, what would
you suggest to President Trump? Given where we are right
now we've wiped out certainly a lot of the air Force,
a lot of the Navy, a lot of the military
(23:29):
capabilities of Iran are gone. We'll see whether or not
Mojtaba the sun here is or is not alive and
able to take power. But what would you say to
President Trump? Is an off ramp here? What should an
end in hostilities look like from a United States perspective?
Speaker 9 (23:50):
Well, I did talk to President about it in a
one on one phone conversation. He called me, I never
call him. I mean, that's all my job, and he's
a president. I'm not going to intrude. And he said,
what would you do? And I said, I negotiate it
down to the fact that there'll be routine expects inside
(24:15):
Iran and they're not to develop a ballistic myscical capacity.
You have to downgrade revolutionary guard, and you have to
become a nation that does not wage war constantly or
finance terrorism. That's a negotiation the degree to that. Then
you would help them rebuild their economy. The problem is
(24:37):
that Oroon will say they'll do it, and then they
won't do it.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
We all know that.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
But that negotiated settlement I think still could happen, but
they're going to have to experience a lot of pain
before the Iranians get to that place, and.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
So no one can say when that will end.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
I mean it's like asking General Patent, you know, when
he's up trying to defeat the Nazis in Baston, how
is this gonna take General, you know, I mean, come on,
it's war. Those questions are ridiculous and stupid and immature
and designed to produce gotcha results. And that's all the
American press.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Well how long?
Speaker 8 (25:18):
How long?
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Nobody knows, and the American people it's a we have
a soft society. We don't want to be inconvenience to
pay more money for anything. And then you know, you
got to hate Trumpers. So it's very complicated. But I
think what will happen is that Iran will come back
to the table and there'll be some kind of an
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agreement to neuter them as a state sponsored terrorist outfit.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Hey Bill, Well, first off, everyone make sure you check
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Speaker 1 (25:57):
Go watch the show.
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It's got robs who would give you a lot of
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wing and right wing for a long time. Bill one
more topic for you before we got ahead into the break,
So we'll do a kind of shorter version on it.
But this Save America Act, we're getting so much from
everyone listening about talk more about the Save America Act.
You got to push the Save America Act. And I
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get it, and I agree with it, and I wish
it would pass. But I also feel like Majority Leader
Thoon plus about four or five other senators aren't going
to pass this thing.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
So what are we supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I mean, do you think that is there a world
in which there's enough pressure, enough phone calls on these senators?
You know, I don't think you're getting McConnell and Murkowski
and said they're not going to vote for this thing.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
McConnell, will Mkowsky won't. But you need sixty to get
it to the Senate. Floyd, they're not going to get
that soon knows it. He'll put it up for a
vote next week. But this hurts the Democratic Party big time.
Go seventy nine. The American public and that close. A
lot of Democrats obviously want voter ID and all the
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socialist countries in Europe have it, and there's no reason
not to have it. So the Republicans are going, yeah,
we know we're not going to get it through the
Senate's already passed the houses, you guys know, but you know,
the damage that the Republican that the Democrats are going
to do to themselves may be worth it. And that's
the way our system is. So you need sixty votes
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to get it to a vote on the floor in
the Senate. Now there's an effort to knock out the filibusterer.
I don't think that's wise, but that could happen. And
the American people understand that in order to diminish voter fraud,
you've got to prove that you're an American citizen, which
is the federal law.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Do you But do you believe these reports that McConnell
is stalling it that you know, you say he'll vote
for it, but.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
Now he's barely cognizant, the guy who's just limbit to
the finish Yeah, I mean, he doesn't you know, I
have any.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Presents at all? Don't.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Murkowski is not really a Republican, okay, and she hates
Trump so much that anything Trump supports, he she'll oppose.
I don't expect any of the defections, even crazy Ram Paul.
I mean, you just can't. But the Democrats, I mean,
that's a bad hell for them to stand on.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Bill O'Reilly, check it out. We'll do it live. We
appreciate the time and good luck.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
On the new show.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
Always fun talking to you guys. Thanks for having me.
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Third hour of Play and Book gets going right now
we're joined by Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri. Now, Senator,
thanks for stopping by.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Let's start with the Save Acts.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
Sir.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
We have so many people who are paying close attention
to this, a lot of listeners all across America who
are saying, this seems like a must, This seems so straightforward,
so necessary as a law, and of course Democrats oppose it.
Is there any realistic path forward for this? What is
the best outcome as you see it, for the Save
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Act that's realistic? What do you want to happen?
Speaker 10 (30:43):
Well, we need to get on it, and the hope
is that next week we will actually be on the
Senate floor with the Save Act. I think that'd be
and by the way, spend some time on it. And
I'm the supporter of this talking filibuster idea. I think
that's what people think happens in Washington and the United
States Senate. They think of Jimmy Stewart holding the floor
and the Senate the old line is that operates by
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unanimous consent or exhaustion, And I think the Democrats should
have to own this and earn it if they want
to block the idea that you have to be a
US citizen to vote, you have to show an idea
to vote that we're not going to allow mass mailing
balloting scams, we're not going to allow transgender surgery for miners,
and we should allow boys and women's sports men and
women's sports. That's what this will do. And those are
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common sense proposals. They're eighty twenty issues. They might be
higher than that. And I think it's really important, most
importantly for protecting the election security and regain the trust
of the American people.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
So my hope is that we're on it, we stay
on it.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
So if we go to the talking filibuster, there have
been all sorts of different reports that I have read
about what that actually looks like, what that means, what
do you anticipate a talking filibuster would look like, and
how does it end?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
How does it progress?
Speaker 10 (31:58):
So you got to get on the and if we
take the House bill, and forgive me if I get
in the weeds.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
But since you asked the question.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
So the House bill, it only requires fifty one votes
to get on it, right, So we can take the
House Bill that's been passed and then it is before
the Senate, and then at that point amendments are in order.
You know, I'm working closely with the White House on this,
and or Lee amendments would be in order. So that
version that came over has two provisions. It doesn't have
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the mail in piece, it doesn't have the transgender piece,
it doesn't have the men and women's sports piece. So
we would be able to amend it. And then at
that point, and that's a majority vote. When you're on amendments,
then at that point we need to get to a
final vote. And the one way you can get to
the final vote is that you just run out of
Democrats that want to hold the floor for hours and hours. Now,
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the commitment from the Republican side is that we need
to make sure we hold a quorum for the whole
time that this happens. Meaning if a Democrat says, hey,
I knowe the absence of a quorum, meaning there's not
enough people in the chamber, there have to be fifty
one Republicans that are there to maintain the quorum.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
So this is something that used to happen.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
I think the Senate's got kind of lazy with the
way we do it now, where you just come in
and you clock in a vote and it takes to
gets you to sixty. So this is about holding the
floor voting on amendments for a period of time.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
That's how it would play out.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Now, speaking of the floor, I believe you've been on
the Senate floor asking for unanimous consent to defund to
fund rather the Department of Homeland Security for the next
two weeks. Where does that stand. I assume Democrats are
either have blocked it or are going to block it.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Yeah, they blocked it.
Speaker 10 (33:35):
So basically the Democrats are blocking funding for homeland Security,
you know. So the irony here is they let fifteen
million people in this country, some of them are terrorists,
many are murderers and even more violent criminals. But they're
defunding Homeland Security. That's what their position is. So they're
blocking our efforts to fund it because they're having a
temper tantrum about ICE. What it's really about, guys, is
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they don't actually think we should enforce our immigration laws.
They don't like the result in twenty twenty four. They
don't care that American mothers and daughters are being raped
and murdered by illegal immigrants, and ices a job to do.
We've set out what their job is in our laws
that have been repassed, passed by Republicans and Democrats, and
enforced by the way by Republicans and Democrats and previous administrations.
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But what we saw with Joe Biden was unprecedent. He
threw open the border. Millions of people are here. President
Trump ran on deporting those folks.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
And here we're we're at.
Speaker 10 (34:28):
They don't like the results, so they just wanted to
fund ICE. That's what this comes down to. So in
the crosshairs that in the mix there in that dh
Fundy Bill is TSA, the Coast Guard, all these agencies
that outside of ICE, and the Democrats are blocking funding
because of Trump arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Okay, let's you're breaking down everything going on in that context.
We're hearing about hours and hours that everybody's having to
stand in line, and at some point, especially with it
being spring break week, people just look around in their
a You may not be paying attention to what's funded
and what's not. We've got an alleged shooting that you
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may or may not have seen that took place in
West Bloomfield, Michigan. Reports are that the shooter is believed
to be dead. We know what happened in Austin, Texas,
where unfortunately a couple of people were murdered by what
appears to have been a deranged lunatic. And we know
in New York City there were just a couple of
IEDs thrown that fortunately did not go off, but could
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have killed many people. Isn't it absolutely beyond the pale
absurd that we would be in a situation where I
think the number right now is three hundred some odd
TSA agents have just said, hey, I've got to quit,
I've got to find a new job, or I've got
to make money right now, that Democrats would be refusing
to fund these individuals.
Speaker 10 (35:47):
It's crazy. I mean, it's so stupid. Clay, I don't.
I mean, I've seen a lot of stuff in politics.
I've seen a lot of argument. It's just so dumb.
But they're obsessed there. First of all, they hate President Trump,
and that may manifest itself in many different ways. But
they thought they had some moment I think in Minneapolis,
that they were going to be able to ultimately prevent
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law enforcement from doing their jobs by overloading them with
burdens that they can't. You know, we can talk about
what those are, but basically it would render ICE unable
to deport people. That's what they want, and so they
are willing to hold all of this hostage. And now
the legacy media will go along with it and they'll
create some issue about some negotiation on this. But it's
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very simple. Republicans just voted, just now, voted to fund TSA,
to fund ICE, to fund Secret Service, to fund the
Coast Guard, and the Democrats have voted No, it's not
that complicated. It's stupid, but it's not complicated.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Senator Schmidt with US now and Senator I think that
this war in Iran or whatever, we haven't really come
up with something other than a word to call it.
I guess this overseas aerial campaign against the Iranian military
definitely acts of war going on. The President seems very
confident that this is both achieving its objectives and will
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be limited in scope, and he is in charge of
that scope. What's your sense as to how this is
going so far and what's your confidence level that this
will be wrapped up, say, by the end of the month.
Speaker 10 (37:19):
Yeah, I mean, I think the President's committed to accomplishing
the objectives as he laid out, and essentially, in a nutshell,
the nuclear program that we had a devastating blow to
with the B two's out of Missouri. By the way,
last summer, AROM was basically creating this missile shield, this
conventional ballistic missile shield to protect it for their future ambitions,
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and that's being wiped out now. So that's really the mission.
We had a briefing earlier this week. They're ahead of
schedule on that, and I think the President's committed to
doing this. He understands the concerns that people would have
about having another forever war in the Middle East. I
don't think he wants that, but he's committed to this mission.
I think they're accomplishing that right now.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Much less.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Seriously, I saw you Friday at the President's College Sports Roundtable,
and I know you have entered introduced a bill alongside
of a Democrat colleague that would help to rectify the
mess that is college athletics.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
What would it do? Are you optimistic that it can
be a solution it?
Speaker 10 (38:20):
Look, it's the first five partisan bill that's been introduced
on this on this measure, and I think that's a
significant development to set the stage. College athletics right now
is very chaotic in college football by and large, for
years has essentially been the cash cow that funds all
the non revenue sports, women's sports, Olympic sports, even sports
like baseball that don't really generate revenue save a couple
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of schools here or there. Because of the new system
that we have right now, you know, it's just a
matter of time, and I think that time's.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Pretty soon where you're just going to start.
Speaker 10 (38:52):
Seeing all that programming dropped and all those scholarships drop
for people who you know, can change their lives.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
So what's the solution?
Speaker 10 (38:58):
I was skeptical Clambuck about Congress if you had ask
me this two years ago, I'd been why is Congress
considering anything here? But the truth is Congress is the
only entity on the planet that can grant anti trust
exemption to some governing body to set some rules, transfer rules,
eligibility rules, agent rules, things that they can't do right
now because of lawsuits have basically rendered the ncaa fecklist.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
They can't do anything.
Speaker 10 (39:19):
So we can do that, but I don't think you
solve the governance problem or the challenges in college sports
without revenue that basically pay for these sports, right these
non revenue women's sports, the Olympic sports that we all love.
And so our proposals Senator Camptell and I from Washington
are that looked. The NFL, the NBA, MLB, they all
have anti trust exemption to collectively negotiate to pool their
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media rights. Okay, and to just give you a statistic,
the NBA has half the audience of college football, but
twice the revenue. The NBA generates about eight billion. College
football is about four billion, but they have twice the
eyeballs every week. And so you know the SEC and
Big ten are big players in that. But what we
could do is our bill says, look you can pull
your media rights respect the conferences. They're going to bring
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in the lion's share of the revenue. But that bargaining
will be great for fans because think about it. With
the NFL, you can there's different channels. There's a Sunday
night game, there's a Monday night game, there's a Thursday
night game. College football. The interest is growing, and you
can actually have a system here where Fox and ESPN
album are bidding bidding, bidding, bidding up those dollars that
can protect those sports and it'll be great for the fans.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
How optimistic are you that this thing is going to pass?
Speaker 10 (40:28):
I think this component is key. I don't think you
can just do the governance piece and get to sixty
votes in the Senate, right. I think there has to
be a carrot here where everybody feels like they're growing.
So if you're if you're a school that's been kind
of left behind on some of this stuff, on the
revenue that's been generated for the you know, the conferences
they're doing exceedingly well.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
There's a reason for them to do it. I think.
And look, I'm a Mazoo guy. I love Miszoo.
Speaker 10 (40:49):
They're in the SEC I love SEC football. I think
they're going to do well in this model too, So
I'm optimistic that the next phase the House is probably
going to play vote on something next week, just the
Score Act, which is just the governance piece. I think
the thing at the White House last week added momentum.
I think we're going to be hopefully. The next step
in the Senate is a hearing in the Commerce Committee,
where I serve on, and this will be heard out,
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and I think that's where the work will be done
to try to find a compromise to literally save college sports.
If we don't get this done this year or maybe
next year, but I think this year is very important.
I think the landscape looks different forever, and if we
fix it, I should say, we give them the tools
to fix it. I think it changes thing for the
next fifty years, will be great for fans.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Good stuff as always, Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri. We
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Speaker 1 (43:24):
I want to update you guys on the latest.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
This is from Foxnews and I just sent it and
let me make sure that I read this correctly. Authority
say the shooter involved in the attack at Temple Israel
that's outside of Detroit, Michigan, found badly burned after crashing
a village into the crashing a vehicle into the building,
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which then caught fire arms security engaged in a shootout
and fatally shot the would be attacker. Also CNN reporting,
and this may be why he was badly burned. That
the vehicle was filled with explosives.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
So that would explain a lot here because you would
have somebody who tried to create a vbied a vehicle
born improvised explosive device, essentially a car suicide bomber, and
the bomb didn't go off. Making bombs is fortunately harder
than a lot of people think it is, especially if
you've never done it before. Near miss, it seems to
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Clay looks like no casualties, no good guy, no good goal,
casualties in the synagogue, only this guy taken out right.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (44:35):
And again this now suggests Austin, New York City, Detroit, Virginia,
all with the same motive that is a violent terror attack.
We bring in now Senator John Cornyn of Texas.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
He is with us.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
We got a bunch to get into with the Senator,
We appreciate the time. Let's start with this primary runoff
against Ken Paxton in late May. Pro President Trump has
said that he is going to endorse, but has held
off on endorsing. Do you expect him to endorse you?
What impact do you think the President's endorsement in Texas
(45:11):
would have?
Speaker 11 (45:13):
Well, I've told the President that I thought his endorsement
would be very impactful and I would be delighted if
he chooses to endorse endorse me in the race. So far,
he's not done that, and you know, people ask me, well,
what's he going to do? And my usual response is
there's only one person on the planet who knows the
(45:35):
answer to that, and it's not me. So we're not
We're continuing to work hard toward that May twenty six runoff,
and if the President decides to make an endorsement, that
would be that'd be great news.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
Senator Corny, appreciate you being with us. My understanding is,
and feel free to correct any part of this because
there's a lot of senators and I can't know everything
that all of you have ever thought or said. My
understanding is that you've long been in the past a
defender of the Senate filibuster rule, so a sixty vote
threshold for most legislation, but that you just recently published
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why the Save Act matters more than the filibuster?
Speaker 1 (46:15):
Am I right? Is that where you are now? Is
that really?
Speaker 2 (46:19):
Is that a major departure, a major change, and you're
feeling about the filibuster and what brought you to this
Because you're going to have some critics who say, well,
this is just because you're up for reelection and you
want to seem like you're going to give the base
what it wants.
Speaker 11 (46:34):
Well, the filibuster has stopped a lot of really bad legislation.
When the Democrats were in charge, they've proposed packing the
Supreme Court, making Puerto Rico in the district of Columbia
States and getting two Democratic senators each and permanently changing
the country. So the filibuster has worked well stop bad stuff.
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But we're in much different times now, and with the
Trump derangement syndrome and the polarization up here in Congress,
Democrats just reflexibly oppose everything that Trump has proposed or
that Republicans want, including paying the Transportation Security Agency agents
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and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. They didn't do anything wrong,
but they're the people being punished now by this second
shutdown of a significant part of the federal government. So
I would I long for the day when you would
have these two political parties who were obviously have different
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priorities and different ideas about how to govern, but where
there is still the possibility of finding some common ground
and working to build consensus. I think that's good for
the country when we can do that, because any short
term measures that one party or the other passed can
changed the next time the Congress slips. So I would
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call this a really kind of an evolution of my
views that fit the times. I don't think it's okay
for us to just tell my constituents in Texas we
can't get anything done because the Democrats won't cooperate. And
we know, as the President has pointed out, that when
the shoe is on the other foot, when they're in
the majority, they will blow up the philibuster immediately. So
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I said, I'm open to the talking philibuster, which we
hope to use on the Save America Act and potentially
other reforms as well.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
We're talking to Senator John Cornyn of Texas. He's gonna
runoff against Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, on May
twenty six. We know that one of you will be
running against James Talerico, who frankly seems like a very
far left wing and radical nominee for the Democrats. Do
you believe that you would beat taller Ico worse than
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Ken Paxton would and is that one reason why you
would argue people should vote for you in this upcoming runoff.
Speaker 11 (49:10):
Yes, that's exactly right. I will be at the top
of the ticket as the nominee. And in twenty twenty
last time I ran, I won by ten points, which
means that not only will we keep the Senate seat
in Republican hands, but it will help down ballot races,
including these five new congressional seats that were drawn as
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a result of redistricting to hopefully help keep the majority
in the House. The Attorney General has so much political
baggage that I think it's an open question whether he
could actually even win. So this thus the prospect or
the possibility of actually losing a red state Senate seat
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in this election. And even if we were to win
by the skin of his teeth, I would think he
will not win by a margin that will help down
ballot and it'll cost hundreds of millions of dollars to
try to salvage him and salvage this red seat. So
that is part of the argument that we've been making,
and I know the President and his team are fully
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aware of.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
Okay, So let's say that you weren't the nominee. Let's
say Ken Paxton one or vice versa. Would you campaign
heartily for whoever the Republican nominee is, and do you
expect that he would campaign for you in order to
make sure that this seat, as you just laid out,
doesn't end up in Democrat hands or doesn't even end
up hopefully competitive, so that there's not having to be
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a ton of money spent on it. In other words,
you win, that's great, You're going to be working hard.
Do you expect his endorsement if you lose? Will you
endorse him?
Speaker 11 (50:51):
Well, first of all, I expect to win. But to
answer your question, I've worked most of my adult life
trying to build the Republican park, both at the state
level and at the national level. My first state wide
election was in nineteen ninety when we still were basically
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a divided state. We had a Democratic governor that year,
Anne Richards, for example. But to answer your question, I
would support the Republican ticket. I think that's the best
answer I can give you.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
Speaking of Senator Cornyn of Texas and a senator, why
would you be better? I mean a lot of times
it comes down for some people trying something new. You've
obviously been in the Senate for quite some time. Why
would it be better to have you representing Texas than
attorney Attorney General Paxton? And how would you address any
(51:50):
critics that you have who say that you're not as
maga when it counts as you'd like to appear at
election time. Because we get a lot of emails, a
lot of callers, and this is something that we hear.
Wanted to give you an opportunity to just lay it
out there for everybody.
Speaker 11 (52:06):
Well, thank you. I think a lot of this has
to do with personalities and temperament. I spent thirteen years
of my life as a judge and then as Attorney
general before I got to the Senate, and I always
like to tell people I'm a conservative. I'm just not
mad about it. But the point is, what the what
(52:28):
what you've done? And that's one reason why in Texas
and our advertising we pointed out that I have voted
with the president ninety nine point three percent of the time.
Was that's a better number than Ted Cruz, the junior
centator from Texas, by the way, And secondly, you know,
we need somebody who can be effective for the state.
(52:48):
So when the governor called me and said, look, Texas
taxpayers have had to step up and pay eleven billion
dollars to help secure the border. When Biden wouldn't, he
called me and we worked with the Texas delegation to
get that done, and so we are expecting a nice
check from the federal government to the Texas taxpayer of
(53:09):
eleven billion dollars. It takes some experience and relationships to
be able to get that done, and I think I
think my effectiveness on behalf of thirty two million Texas
is something that separates me from the Attorney general.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
We're talking to John Cornyn, Senator from Texas runoff May
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (53:30):
When you looked.
Speaker 3 (53:31):
At the results, you won the primary in the first
goal around, you had the most votes.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
Were you surprised by that? Did you expect it? What
did that?
Speaker 3 (53:40):
What does that outcome tell people about Texas?
Speaker 11 (53:45):
Well, I would there's nothing guaranteed, but I was optimistic
that I would win, and that was you know, there
have been a lot of trash what I call trash talk,
including the Attorney General who said he could win without
a runoff, and obviously that didn't materialized. So you know,
we've been only about eleven percent of registered voters voted
(54:09):
in the Republican primary. Thankfully, people who didn't vote in
the primary can vote in the run off. But you know,
a lot of this has to do with motivating your
voters and getting them to the polls. In the end,
winning elections isn't all that complicated. It's about who gets
the most votes. And we simply worked hard to try
(54:31):
to encourage as many people as we can to vote
in the Republican primary. Even so, the Democrats out voted us,
which should be a warning shot across our bout.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
Senator.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
You know, we got a lot of emails because we
asked for questions, and you know, for example, I'll just
let you address this. We have one VIP who wrote
in and said, I believe Senator Kornyan voted against Pete
hegg Sath for DoD secretary now Secretary of War. You
voted yes for Pete hag Sath, if memory serve, am
I correct on that?
Speaker 1 (54:59):
Correct?
Speaker 5 (55:00):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Yeah, Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
There are some of the questions we get are actually
not fair to just to call the balls and strikes
your center, the not fair to your record. People seem
to think for some reason that you have voted not
ninety nine percent of the time with Trump.
Speaker 5 (55:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (55:16):
Well, the president knows what my record is, and he
calls me a friend. And there was some indication that
he was prepared to endorse me after leading in the
primary on March third. Obviously, as we said, the timing
of that and if it happens is entirely up to him.
But I think the President views me as an ally
(55:37):
and somebody who supported him, and I think he appreciates that.
You know, I was there on the front lines during
the confirmation of three new Supreme Court justices. When we
passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in twenty seventeen.
I was the whip who helped get the get that
across the finish line. So a lot of the campaign
(55:58):
is about reminding people about what my record is and
frankly disabusing people of some of the falsehoods that are
out there. So I appreciate you giving me an opportunity
to address that.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
Senator Corny, thank you for coming on the show and
taking our questions. And godspeed to you and we'll talk
to you soon.
Speaker 11 (56:16):
Thank you very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (56:19):
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